September 29, 1994: Vol26n4: Aviation Day to be held Oct. 1

Aviation Day to be held Oct. 1
A model-airplane flying contest, prizes, videos, helicopters and other
displays will be featured Oct. 1 on Aviation Day, to be held from 1-5
p.m. at Amherst Museum Colony Park, 3755 Tonawanda Creek Road,
Amherst. The event begins with a panel discussion on how aviation
helps people in distress, moderated by UB Engineering Professor Joseph
Mollendorf.
	Representatives from groups including the N.Y. State Police,
Mercy Flight, 914th Airlift Wing/U.S. Air Force Reserve, N.Y. Army
National Guard, Civil Air Patrol and the NFTA Aircraft Rescue
Firefighting unit, as well as Erie County Sheriff Thomas Higgins, will
make presentations from 2-3:30 p.m.
	The model-airplane flying contest will be held from 4-5 p.m.,
with free rubberband-powered kits to the first 75 entrants.
Competitions will be held in two categories: 12 years old and under,
and 13-18-year-olds. Admission is free. For more information, call
689-1440.
U.S. News ranks UB as 'best value'
For the second time in a month, UB has been ranked by a national
magazine as being among the top universities in the country offering
the best value - quality education at a reasonable cost.
	UB was ranked No. 16 nationally and No. 2 in New York State
among national universities, based on its stated, or "sticker" price,
in U.S. News & World Report's first-ever ranking of schools that
provide the best values. The rankings will be published in a section
on financing college in the magazine's Oct. 3 issue. Last month, UB
was ranked 27th in Money magazine's annual ranking of the Top 100
college and university best buys.
	"To place in the top 20 of this (U.S. News) poll, along with
the finest public universities in the country, says a lot about UB's
quality," said President William R. Greiner. "And the top 25 placement
of not only UB, but the three other SUNY research university, says a
lot about State University's quality in general."
Sistine fresco is subject of lecture
The unveiling of the Sistine Chapel's newly restored "Last Judgment"
fresco by Michelangelo will be the subject of a slide lecture Oct. 2
by Walter Persegati, international coordinator of the Patrons and
Friends of the Vatican Museums and former secretary general of Vatican
Museums.
	The lecture, "The Unveiling of Michelangelo's Last Judgment in
the Sistine Chapel," will take place at 2 p.m. in the Albright-Knox
Art Gallery auditorium.
Free and open to the public, it is co-sponsored by the UB Departments
of Art and Art History and the Art Conservation Department of Buffalo
State College. 
Jean Harris to speak Oct. 25
Jean Harris, educator, author and prison reformer who was granted
clemency in 1993 after 12 years in prison for murder, will lecture at
UB Oct. 25. Her talk at 8 p.m. in Slee Concert Hall is presented by
the UB Graduate Group on Justice and Democracy and the Buffalo League
of Woman Voters.
	Harris will discuss her experiences in Bedford Hills
Correctional Facility and the work she did there counseling inmates on
how to care for their children. 
	The former Madeira school headmistress wrote three books
during this period, and many newspaper articles on subjects ranging
from abortion to prison reform. With her earnings, she established a
foundation for the education of imprisoned mothers and their children.
	Tickets are $10, general admission, $5, students and senior
citizens, and free to UB students with student identification. They
can be purchased at the door on the night of the event, starting at 7
p.m., or in advance at the UB Ticket Office, 221 Student Union.
Hollywood is on its way to Buffalo
Among the UB alumni returning for Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 7-9, is a
special contingent from Hollywood, entertainment luminaries who are
staging their own special reunion. 
	They include Robert Lieberman, UB '71, award-winning director
of more than 1,000 television commercials and producer-director of
feature-length films, television films and the series "Gabriel's
Fire." He received the UB Distinguished Alumni Award in 1990. Married
to actress Marilu Henner ("Evening Shade"), he was the first
participant in UB's Distinguished Alumni Visitors series.
	Others are: Shep Gordon, '68, president of Alive Enterprises,
an agency representing Alice Cooper, Teddy Pendergrass, Luther
Vandross and well-known chefs including Wolfgang Puck and Paul
Prudhomme; Barry Gutterman, '67, now an attorney specializing in
entertainment law; Eric Isralow, radio producer and actor known as
"Dr. Rock," who holds a bachelor's degree in sociology and a master's
in student personnel management from UB, awarded in 1966 and 1970;
Linda Phillips Palo, a casting director who graduated in 1972 in
sociology and went on for a master's in American studies in 1975. Her
casting credits include feature films produced by Francis Ford
Coppola, Alec Baldwin, George Lukas, Mel Brooks and Norman Jewison;
Richard Lawrence '67, a talent agent and partner in the Abrams,
Rubaloff and Lawrence Agency, which handles Jonathan Winters, Zsa Zsa
Gabor, Dick Clark and others; Steve Sunshine, '71, who became a New
York playwright and director before writing and producing TV series
and feature films with his wife, Madeline. Among these are "Webster,"
"The People Next Door," and "The Julie Andrews Show" for ABC. They
received the People's Choice Award for Best Comedy Series and the
NAACP Image Award for Comedy Writing.
	The group will be guests at a breakfast hosted by Arts and
Letters Dean Kerry Grant in the Center for the Arts Oct. 7. Later they
will engage theater-and-dance students in informal discussions in the
center's smaller theaters. 	After lunch Gordon will lead a panel
discussion for students in the Center for the Arts Screening Room.
They will get a look at dance and acting rehearsals and the work of
media-study and art students.
	That evening, the group will be guests at a dinner hosted by
President William R. Greiner. On Oct. 8, they'll attend the homecoming
parade and visit the alumni tent party before watching the UB-Colgate
football game from the president's box.
Expert on aging, fitness to lecture 
Waneen Wyrick Spirduso, an internationally known scholar in the field
of the aging of the human motor system, will present the 1994 J.
Warren Perry lecture Oct. 7 at 6 p.m., in the Katharine Cornell
Theater. Spirduso will speak on "Physical Activity and Cognitive
Function in the Elderly."
	The Perry lecture is sponsored by the UB School of Health
Related Professions. Admission is free and open to the public.
	Spirduso, a Mauzy Regent's Professor of Kinesiology and Health
Education at the University of Texas at Austin, holds a joint
appointment in the College of Pharmacy. Chair of the Department of
Kinesiology and Health Education for 14 years, she also served as
interim dean of the College of Education.
	Her career has centered on the effects of aging, health and
fitness on the information process involved in producing and
controlling rapid movements. She has lectured widely and has written
three books, 11 book chapters and 42 papers. Spirduso has served as
president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport
and Physical Activity, and of the American Academy of Physical
Education.